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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 9h
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h
Jared Kushner is key to understanding the Trump regime’s global scale of corruption. No talent, no morals—just bottomless greed, access to power. @cjcmichel.bsky.social exposes him in a new book, “United States of Oligarchy.” Here’s our talk (get him on your show!) youtu.be/8LDhLXOwjcI?...
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Elon Musk, Jared Kushner, & Dark Money: Exposing the Global Oligarchy | Casey Michel
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
shoutout to Senator Jack Reed (@reed.senate.gov) who was briefed on this a week ago but hasn't bothered to tell us plebes!
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posting my #Vampire that isn't Dracula.
A picture of noted vampire and ghoul Peter Thiel. A creature with sunken-in eyes that takes blood from young men.
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was just reading this update from Aaron Parnas. Could you imagine if we took all of these millions and used them to feed and clothe the hungry instead of wasting it on flyers that go directly in the trash and TV ads no one gives a shit about. bsky.app/profile/aaro...
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great seeing that idiot Eric Schmitt get all excited, pinning a fake conspiracy on Jack Smith like he's a shit-tier twitter influencer, before being called out as a smooth brain. I guess anyone can be a US senator. #EricSchmittDumb bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Major update: A full throttled assault on voting rights this November is beginning. From the Supreme Court to Trump's allies, this is urgent and I have the latest right now. Meanwhile, Trump ends enforcement of racial desegregation in schools. I need your help to spread this update everywhere.
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Major Friday Update: Full Throttled Assault on the Midterms, Trump Rolls Back Enforcement of Racial Desegregation, and More
Good evening everyone.
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What I find so saddening about this Susan Collins story is how cheap it was to buy her influence. For just over 150k, she funnelled over 30 million to this company. I can't imagine how much more money is flowing to other establishment politicians to defraud us! www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WIRED: “Census Bureau Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank — home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person, used for drawing congressional districts + allocating federal funding…” Nothing to see here, folks! 😕🤷🏼
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2)
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: Mr Whatley, are you ashamed that you campaigned with child rapist Daimon King? Do you think it's okay to campaign with people who abuse children? Do you think the Trump administration should release the Epstein files, or do you want to protect those pedophiles as well? MICHAEL WHATLEY: *flees*
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am so glad @meidastouch.com put this clip out. We need more clear-headed questions like this on AI labs' claims that they're building tools that will destroy our society. They need to be held accountable for their messaging. Mainstream media continues to fail on AI. bsky.app/profile/meid...
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RP @george73.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again: Russia was never a hoax
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute is canceling Palantir Technologies' sponsorship of Thursday’s 49th Annual Awards Gala and returning the company’s money. Rep. @velazquez.house.gov went 'ballistic' on learning that Palantir would be sponsoring the event where she is being honored."
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UPDATE: CHCI Cancels Palantir Sponsorship, Will Return the Money
Soto tells colleagues the deal is off after Migrant Insider asked him to explain it
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was in a long bus line when I read this article, which prompted me to read Jacob Coxon's posts and post my own. I can't believe the media is so credulous and keeps amplifying this obvious nonsense, especially when there's actually something we're doing that's killing millions of people every year.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026
The gutting of local journalism continues. I started as an intern at the Lexington Herald-Leader, which laid off a majority of its reporters today. The McClatchy company was bought by a hedge fund that promised to be a good steward of journalism. And here we are... www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...
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McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Open AI has hired Chuck Schumer's daughter to help them with government relations. I don’t like it one bit, and this kind of thing is a big part of the reason top Democrats have done such a poor job of turning the Trump family’s far more extreme corruption into an election issue.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026
This video on the rise of Trump's "shadow president" is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Russ Vought, most of which had not been previously reported:
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
A secretive DHS ‘predictive policing’ unit analyzed the financial activity of a man who was driving across Montana, and local authorities stopped him under the pretense of an obstructed license plate and charged him with a DUI. @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Read: www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@gilduran.com, check this out. Schumer's daughter is going to work for Clammy Sammy Altman while he helps burn down democracy. It seems to me there's no question @schumer.senate.gov supports fascism at this point. www.axios.com/2026/09/05/o...
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Exclusive: OpenAI expands policy team amid legislative headwinds
The expansion comes as bipartisan efforts across the country to regulate artificial intelligence intensify
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/09/2026
Got 'em: The @thebulwark.com added an editor's note to the review, acknowledging that the author's direct affiliation with the Foundation for American Innovation ("the foundation shaping the tech right," according to Inc.) created a conflict that should have been forthrightly disclosed.
Editor's note from Bulwark: 1
Editor’s note (September 3, 2026, 1:10 p.m. EDT): In a response to this review posted to social media, Gil Durán, author of The Nerd Reich, has highlighted that the reviewer, Jacob Bruggeman, is affiliated with the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). Durán mentions FAI in his book, once, in a sentence that reads as follows: “This merging of tech and far-right networks—hosted by the Foundation for American Innovation, which Inc. later described as ‘the foundation shaping the tech right’—seemed like a live test of [Balaji] Srinivasan’s theory.” Bruggeman’s affiliation with FAI is an unpaid, nonresident fellowship (in other words, it is not his day job), and while it was mentioned in his byline beneath this review, we should have made a point of additionally disclosing it in a footnote like this.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/09/2026
I have a question for Peter Thiel
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As we see all the articles and posts from MAGA farmers crying about losing their farms, or complaining about being able to hire for this year's harvest, I'm reminded of this wonderful rant from someone named Bella Vandala last year. #FAFO www.youtube.com/shorts/54FtC...
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September 9, 2025
YouTube video by Bella Vandala
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Empowered by the Citizens United decision, Elon Musk has spent $800,000 influencing elections this cycle. The richest man in the world continues to prove why we need to ban super PACs and get Big Money out of politics.
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Musk’s America PAC spends about $800K in key midterm races
Tech mogul Elon Musk’s super PAC has spent around $800,000 in top House and Senate races this cycle, according to the latest filings. America PAC spent the most in Texas, doling out roughly $248,00…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are being tracked, monitored, and profiled 24/7 by a corporate-state complex that treats our private lives as raw data to be harvested and monetized.
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 03/09/2026
If Maduro and his wife as foreign dignitaries are found to be not immune from drug trafficking charges then this should open up Trump to his human trafficking crimes contrary to the bullshit blanket immunity he thinks he has.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MUSK UNMASKED: “Insane a person this chaotic has so much power… if you wanted to corrupt the midterms and use AI, what DOGE did looked just like what you would do…” This is what we’re poisoning Memphis for? 😕 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 02/09/2026
As far as I can tell, the only newspaper to write about this was the Wichita Eagle. Perhaps if we get Hasan Piker to endorse "Unhumans," we can have a big full media outrage cycle over this horrific genocidal civil war incantation...one embraced by the PRESIDENT. www.kansas.com/opinion/arti...
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Pompeo calls colleges socialist, while Trump touts pro-fascist book | Opinion
Former Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo attacks universities and democratic socialists, as President Trump promotes a troubling fascist manifesto.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@mizzwelch.bsky.social called it: Peter Thiel is un-American. Watch the full episode @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fascism is here!!!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 01/09/2026
Trump just endorsed a book that portrays Democrats as demons that must be purged. We're in very dangerous territory here. I wrote about the "Unhumans" playbook in 2024—and last month. Desperate Trump wants to steal the election. Here's what you need to know about the "Unhumans" strategy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Canadian military face paint vs US military face paint
This image appears to show a Canadian Army soldier wearing camouflage face paint and a black beret with an artillery cap badge.This image shows Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Fox News television host.
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here's what happens when a failson with no medical training or food processing industry experience is put in charge of the quality of our food. #RobertFailureKennedy www.newsday.com/business/fda... www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yet another reason to get corporations and their politicians out of our politics. "Employee-funded" my a$$! www.reuters.com/technology/n...
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Nvidia to start employee-funded US political action committee
Tech ‌company Nvidia will start an employee-funded political action committee, a source familiar with the ​plans said, as the company ​seeks to step up its efforts ⁠to influence U.S. policy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The real Lake America
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Imagine being this tone deaf and insulting American voters... bsky.app/profile/atru...
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026
Investors will buy your life insurance policy today — and collect the payout when you die.
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How the AIDS crisis helped create a multibillion-dollar death-speculation market
Investors will buy your life insurance policy today — and collect the payout when you die.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/08/2026
Democrats Bow to Billionaires: “This is nothing but a wholesale exemption of our state’s environmental protections that will hurt Collinsville, Solano County, the Bay-Delta ecosystem, and our state—all for the benefit of California Forever and their billionaire backers” www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
Sacramento Bee headline: Democratic lawmakers to push Solano County shipyard in new California forever bid
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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zetetic99.bsky.social @zetetic99.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries response to the Kushner meeting: "He asked for a meeting...<very long pause>...and I took it." You definitely took it bud. This is embarrassing. The original video was over BlueSky's 3 minute limit, so the last 5-7 seconds is cut off. Original video: publish.x.com?query=https%...
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